In the previous article, I discussed the installation and activation of the SSL certificate on vSphere host 6.7. The process is relatively easy. The same thing I tried to apply to vCenter 6.7 but failed. After several trial & error processes, the problem is most likely because vCenter does not want to use SSL wildcards….
By default vSphere uses an SSL certificate from VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA). If accessed through a browser, the https access will be considered untrusted. If you have the trusted SSL certificate (commercial) for your domain name, you can install it to replace the default SSL provided by VMCA. Following is the process to install the…
After several revisions, the 2019 edition of VMware vSphere ebook was officially launched. This 2019 edition ebook contains several additions to the content related to vSphere Update Manager, Content Library, vSphere Networking (vSphere Distributed Switch), SSL implementation on both hosts and vCenter and update for existing contents. In print conditions, this ebook has 318 pages….
Last Friday I received a package containing the Intel NUC Hades Canyon series NUC817HVK VR Edition. This is one of the Intel NUC series with a qualified specification suitable for virtualization server, especially for VMware vSphere and Proxmox. With an Intel Core i7-8809G and Radeon VGA, I bought 32 GB RAM (VGEN 16 GB SODIMM…
What is VMware vCenter Server Appliance? Prior to vSphere 5.0, we can only run vCenter on Windows Server, either on physical or virtual machine (VM ). Since vSphere 5.1, VMware provide an option to run vCenter in the form of VM appliance. vCenter Server Appliance ( vCSA ) is a package system based on SUSE…
One of the commons SysAdmin job is perform server management. VMware vSphere management server can actually be done remotely using the vSphere Client access (based on Windows) , Web Client or can also use 3rd party mobile applications . Along with the development of technology, remote server management via mobile devices such as gadgets or…
One of the commons SysAdmin job is perform server management. VMware vSphere management server can actually be done remotely using the vSphere Client access (based on Windows) , Web Client or can also use 3rd party mobile applications . Along with the development of technology, remote server management via mobile devices such as gadgets or…
In the previous article, I wrote an article about how to create a user account on vCenter Server Appliances (vCSA). This method will be very beneficial for us if we do not have an Active Directory (AD) server for user account back end, so we could directly use Linux user account which exists on vCSA….
One of the most important step, but often forgotten by the user while configuring Virtual Machine on VMware vSphere are VMware tools installation and configuration. In addition to improving VM’s performance (increase the quality on VGA, network card, etc), VMware tools also useful to provide the ability on host server to restart and shut down the VM…
As an alternative to installing vCenter Server on a Windows machine, since vSphere 5.0, Vmware provide VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). The vCenter Server Appliance is a preconfigured Linux-based virtual machine optimized for running vCenter Server and associated services. On stand alone vSphere host, we can use vSphere client directly to connect to the vSphere…